Marc Gini

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Marc Gini Alpine skiing
Marc Gini in January 2008
nation SwitzerlandSwitzerland Switzerland
birthday 8th November 1984 (age 35)
place of birth Castasegna , Switzerland
size 183 cm
Weight 82 kg
Career
discipline Slalom , giant slalom
society PIZ Turba Bivio
status resigned
End of career April 7, 2017
Placements in the Alpine Ski World Cup
 Individual World Cup debut January 5, 2003
 Individual world cup victories 1
 Overall World Cup 49th ( 2010/11 )
 Giant Slalom World Cup 52nd ( 2008/09 )
 Slalom World Cup 14th ( 2007/08 )
 Podium placements 1. 2. 3.
 slalom 1 0 0
 team 1 1 1
 

Marc Gini (born November 8, 1984 in Castasegna ) is a former Swiss ski racer . Sandra Gini's brother specialized in slalom and giant slalom races and won a world cup race .

biography

Gini's career began in 2000 with involvement in various FIS races and national championships. The first successes emerged in 2003 when it was also used in European Cup races. In 2004 he had to take a full season off because of a torn cruciate ligament . Gini achieved greater fame at national level in April 2005 when he won the Swiss slalom championship. He had already taken part in World Cup races since January 2003 , but was only able to win his first World Cup points on December 4, 2005 , finishing 22nd in the slalom in Beaver Creek .

Gini took part in the slalom world championships in 2005 , 2007 and 2009 , but was eliminated every time. In 2006 he became Swiss champion in slalom for the second time and in giant slalom for the first time; Two further Swiss championship titles in slalom and one in super combined followed in the next three years.

On November 11, 2007, Gini with the start number 19 surprisingly won the slalom on the Reiteralm ahead of Kalle Palander and Manfred Mölgg , after he had already led after the first run, and thus won the only World Cup victory of his career. Five weeks later he achieved his second-best World Cup result with seventh place in the slalom in Alta Badia . As a result, Gini could not classify himself in the top ten for a long time and was relegated to the Swiss-Ski B squad after the 2008/09 season due to insufficient performance (14th place as the best result) .

In the 2009/10 season , Gini showed an increasing performance curve: on November 15, 2009, he finished tenth in the Levi slalom for the first time in almost two years, and on December 3, he celebrated his first European Cup victory. On January 10, 2010, he achieved sixth place in the Adelboden slalom, the second-best World Cup result of his career at the time. These results also gave him a start at his first Olympic Winter Games in Vancouver , where he finished 15th in slalom. He also rose from the Swiss B-squad for the 2010/11 season to the A-squad. In contrast to previous years, Gini had almost no losses in the 2010/11 World Cup season . His best result of the season was fourth place at the finals in Lenzerheide . At the 2011 World Championships in Garmisch-Partenkirchen , he finished only 37th, but achieved a result for the first time in his fourth World Cup participation.

After the end of the 2010/11 season, Gini underwent meniscus surgery, which also treated a cartilage damage in the knee. Due to persistent pain, which had only allowed him to do very limited summer training, a second operation followed in early October 2011. In the 2011/12 season he could not take part in any race, in the following 2012/13 season a 17th place remained his best result. At the World Championships in Schladming he was 18th in the slalom. In 2013/14 he could not show a single countable result due to numerous failures and clearly missed the qualification for the Olympic Games in Sochi .

After the winter of 2014/15 had been similarly unsuccessful, Gini showed an upward trend again in the 2015/16 season. He won two European Cup slaloms and took third place in the discipline classification. In the 2016/17 World Cup season he was able to classify himself three times in the points. On April 7, 2017, he announced his retirement as a top athlete.

successes

Olympic games

World championships

World cup

  • 10 placements among the top ten in individual races, including 1 victory:
date place country discipline
November 11, 2007 Reiteralm Austria slalom

European Cup

  • 2015/16 season : 9th overall ranking, 3rd slalom ranking
  • 11 podium places, including 4 wins:
date place country discipline
December 3, 2009 Val Thorens France slalom
December 2, 2010 Are Sweden slalom
December 21, 2015 Pozza di Fassa Italy slalom
January 3, 2016 Val-Cenis France slalom

Nor-Am Cup

  • 2 podium places, including 1 victory:
date place country discipline
March 16, 2006 panorama Canada slalom

More Achievements

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Marc Gini: In free fall from the national team to the B-team. skionline.ch, March 16, 2009.
  2. ↑ Selections men alpine skiing 2010/2011. ( Memento of the original from April 2, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (PDF; 14 kB) Swiss-Ski , April 22, 2010. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.swiss-ski.ch
  3. ↑ Marc Gini: Out after the operation - will fish oil save him now? skionline.ch, August 18, 2011, accessed on November 23, 2011.
  4. ↑ Marc Gini was operated on. skionline.ch, October 6, 2011, accessed on November 23, 2011.
  5. ↑ Marc Gini is out the whole season. skionline.ch, January 6, 2012, accessed on January 8, 2012.
  6. ↑ Farewell after 124 races: Gini stops. Swiss Radio and Television , April 7, 2017, accessed on April 7, 2017 .
personal data
SURNAME Gini, Marc
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss ski racer
DATE OF BIRTH November 8, 1984
PLACE OF BIRTH Castasegna , Switzerland